Hatchet

This award winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are comparedand a page turning heart stopping adventure recipient of the Newbery Honor Thirteen year old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single engine plane in which he is flying crashes Suddenly Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a presentand the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parents divorce But now Brian has no time for anger self pity or despairit will take all his know how and determination and more courage than he knew he possessed to survive